what characterizes states of samādhi is some degree of collectedness and unification of mind and body in a sense of well-being.

This sense can often be neglected, especially if we are not accustomed to having faith in ourselves in this way.

One of the ways that mindfulness dissolves a certain amount of dukkha is by fabricating less, in general, than the mind usually might.

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Believing then that this real self can really gain or lose real things or experiences which have real qualities, grasping and aversion, and thus dukkha, arise inevitably.

Learning to deliberately bring a kind and skilful attention to the emotions that are present in the body, allowing and holding them, can allow the emotions to soften. The body then begins to soften.

flexibility of view – to be able to pick up a view of self and situation when it is helpful, and, when it is not, to put it down and look in a different way that is more helpful.

It is also possible to use the breath or the mettā to help elicit and support the pervasion of this sense of well-being. Simply sensitizing to, and enjoying, the way we feel the energetic resonances of the mettā or the breath throughout the whole space of the body – opening to and finding delight in their reverberations there – can gently move the

Based on what you have learnt from past experiences, can you accept that something is being fabricated here by the mind state? If